<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady ConductorShe raised her baton....and Beethoven answeredJohn C Lehman Jr 1955 to 1989. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lady ConductorShe raised her baton....and Beethoven answeredJohn C Lehman Jr 1955 to 1989.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[And there's no faux woodÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â€ÂšÃ‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Âanywhere. Instead, Sarillo builds his restaurants with oak floors and hand-hewn pine, spruce and Douglas fir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31517]]></link><description><![CDATA[[And there's no faux woodÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â€ÂšÃ‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Âanywhere. Instead, Sarillo builds his restaurants with oak floors and hand-hewn pine, spruce and Douglas fir beams from 100-year-old Midwestern barns.] All the way down to the nails, it's a real barn, ... you feel like it's real stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of pleasure is a man of pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45376]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of pleasure is a man of pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/979]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/430]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61783]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about  By the sullen winds which blow   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57246]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about  By the sullen winds which blow   From the desolate shores of doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61692]]></link><description><![CDATA[A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46540]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a new life. He that cannot endure to live to God will as little endure to bear of being born of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His thinking was a little off and too complicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42545]]></link><description><![CDATA[His thinking was a little off and too complicated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who wouldachieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21075]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who wouldachieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly mustsacrifice greatly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10583]]></link><description><![CDATA[All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13814]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58341]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run!  Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun,   And there followed some droppings of rain:    But now the fair traveller's come to the west,     His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best;      He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest,       And foretells a bright rising again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65997]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31073]]></link><description><![CDATA[You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest of the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing common can seem worthy of you. [Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing common can seem worthy of you. [Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The assassination changed the way we thought, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The assassination changed the way we thought,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2089]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's the kind of person you want in your corner when all the chips are being played, Hit me! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38109]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's the kind of person you want in your corner when all the chips are being played, Hit me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that dies pays all debts. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56090]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that dies pays all debts. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's adorned Amply, that in her husband's eye looks lovely,--  The truest mirror that an honest wife   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2771]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's adorned Amply, that in her husband's eye looks lovely,--  The truest mirror that an honest wife   Can see her beauty in!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is purchased by the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is purchased by the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The tournament returns to the same venue this morning for the 2005 state tournament, but this time the elements are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28796]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The tournament returns to the same venue this morning for the 2005 state tournament, but this time the elements are forecasted to be more conducive to scoring.] The weather is supposed to be great, ... They say its going to be the nicest day of the week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair,  She takes the breath of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61936]]></link><description><![CDATA[A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair,  She takes the breath of men away   Who gaze upon her unaware:    I would not play her larcenous tricks     To have her looks!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4601]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I sat on a sunny bank On Christmas day in the morning  I spied three ships come sailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8633]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I sat on a sunny bank On Christmas day in the morning  I spied three ships come sailing in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With government funding being cut back, charities are being hard-pressed to turn away money that's legal. We don't get into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33563]]></link><description><![CDATA[With government funding being cut back, charities are being hard-pressed to turn away money that's legal. We don't get into why people give money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The green retreats Of Academus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The green retreats Of Academus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24519</guid></item></channel></rss>